Newcastle legend, Alan Shearer has come out to reveal the moment Arsenal’s UCL semi-final against PSG was lost. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Arsenal had to score after pinning the French team back for the first 10 or 15 minutes in France, and their failure to capitalize on the pressure killed their momentum eventually.
Shearer added that it was Arsenal’s best chance to seize control of the game, but they could not take advantage.
His words, “The way that Arsenal started the game, I felt they had to score because they were battering them for the first 10 or 15 minutes. They were causing them all sorts of problems from long throws, or set-pieces, they had the Martinelli chance, Donnarumma saved it. They had the Declan Rice header. He should have done better. Obviously the Odegaard shot and then once it just settled down a little bit, I thought that was Arsenal’s best chance and and that that was their chance to put PSG under pressure and they obviously didn’t. And I always felt from then onwards it was going to be a tough ask.”
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Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. Arsenal compete in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 17 FA Community Shields, the Football League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In terms of trophies won, it is the third-most successful club in English football.
After conducting an overhaul in the club’s operating model to coincide with Wenger’s departure, Spaniard Unai Emery was named as the club’s new head coach on 23 May 2018. He became the club’s first ever ‘head coach’ and second manager from outside the United Kingdom.
In Emery’s first season, Arsenal finished fifth in the Premier League and as runner-up in the Europa League. On 29 November 2019, Emery was dismissed as manager and former player and assistant first team coach Freddie Ljungberg was appointed as interim head coach. On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta as the new head coach. Arsenal finished the league season in eighth, their lowest finish since 1994–95, but beat Chelsea 2–1 to earn a record-extending 14th FA Cup win. After the season. Arteta’s title was changed from head coach to manager.
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